MCQs- Life and Works of T S Eliot
1. What was T. S.
Eliot’s full name?
A. Thomas Samuel Eliot
B. Thomas Stearns Eliot
C. Theodore Stearns Eliot
D. Timothy Samuel Eliot
2. Which city was
T. S. Eliot born in?
A. Boston
B. New York
C. St. Louis
D. Chicago
3. Eliot’s
literary age is ……… ?
A. 1888-1965
B. 1882-1960
C. 1882-1965
D. 1888-1960
4. T. S. Eliot
was born in which country?
a. England
b. Ireland
c. United States
d. Canada
5. Eliot’s poem Marina (1930) draws its central metaphor from:
A. Shakespeare’s Pericles
B. Homer’s Odyssey
C. Dante’s Divine Comedy
D. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex
6. In which year
was T. S. Eliot awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
a. 1945
b. 1948
c. 1955
d. 1960
7. Which poet parodied T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday (1930) in a 1931 poem titled Cinder Thursday?
A. Ezra Pound
B. Herbert Palmer
C. Ogden Nash
D. G.K. Chesterton
8. Which of the
following is NOT a work by T. S. Eliot?
a. The Waste Land
b. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
c. The Hollow Men
d. The Great Gatsby
9. Where did T.S. Eliot study Sanskrit, which influenced works like The Waste Land?
A. University of Cambridge
B. Harvard University
C. The Sorbonne (Paris)
D. Oxford University
10. Which
literary movement was T. S. Eliot associated with?
a. Romanticism
b. Realism
c. Modernism
d. Postmodernism
11. Which T.S. Eliot poem concludes with the line: "I should be glad of another death."?
A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B. The Waste Land
C. Journey of the Magi
D. Four Quartets
12. T.S. Eliot’s first professionally published poem was:
A. Ash-Wednesday
B. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
C. The Waste Land
D. The Hollow Man
13. The nickname "Old Possum" was given to T.S. Eliot by:
A. Virginia Woolf
B. Ezra Pound
C. W.H. Auden
D. Gertrude Stein
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14. T.S. Eliot’s poetic meditation on the interpretation of Christ’s birth in Bethlehem appears in:
A. The Waste Land
B. Ash Wednesday
C. Journey of the Magi
D. Four Quartets
15. What was the
name of T. S. Eliot's second wife, married in 1957, who is also his secretary?
a. Vivienne Haigh-Wood
b. Emily Hale
c. Mary Trevelyan
d. Esmé Valerie Fletcher
16. Which of the
following is a line from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock"?
a. "Do not go gentle into that
good night"
b. "In the room the women come
and go / Talking of Michelangelo"
c. "I wandered lonely as a
cloud"
d. "Because I could not stop for
Death"
17. What was the
title of T. S. Eliot's first book of poetry?
a. The Waste Land
b. Prufrock and Other Observations
c. Four Quartets
d. The Hollow Men
18. Which of the
following works by T. S. Eliot was written during his conversion to
Christianity?
a. The Waste Land
b. Four Quartets
c. Murder in the Cathedral
d. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
19. Who coined
the term, Objective Correlative?
A. T S Eliot
B. William Wordsworth
C. P B Shelley
D. W B Yeats
20. Which of the
following is NOT a section of T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"?
a. Burnt Norton
b. East Coker
c. Little Gidding
d. The Hollow Men
21. In which year
was T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", (which made him world famous), first
published?
a. 1915
b. 1922
c. 1935
d. 1945
22. What was the
name of the literary journal founded by T. S. Eliot in 1922?
a. The Criterion
b. The New Yorker
c. The Paris Review
d. The Atlantic Monthly
23. The epigraph of T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) is taken from:
A. Virgil’s Aeneid
B. Dante’s Inferno
C. Shakespeare’s Hamlet
D. John Donne’s Holy Sonnets
24. Who defined
poetry as: “Poetry is not turning loose emotion, but an escape from emotion”
A. T S Eliot
B. William Wordsworth
C. P B Shelley
D. W B Yeats
25. Who declared himself
as “Classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in
religion”?
A. Mathew Arnold
B. Alexander Pope
C. John Milton
D. T S Eliot
26. What was the
name of T. S. Eliot's play that explores the assassination of Archbishop Thomas
Becket?
a. The Cocktail Party
b. The Family Reunion
c. Murder in the Cathedral
d. The Confidential Clerk
27. Which of the
following is a line from T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"?
a. "This is the way the world
ends / Not with a bang but a whimper"
b. "April is the cruellest
month"
c. "I have measured out my life
with coffee spoons"
d. "The sun beats down and I lie
down to doze"
28. What was the
name of the literary group of which T. S. Eliot was a part, along with other
writers such as James Joyce and Ezra Pound?
a. The Bloomsbury Group
b. The Inklings
c. The Imagists
d. The Modernists
29. What was the
title of T. S. Eliot's essay in which he coined the term "objective
correlative"?
a. Tradition and the Individual Talent
b. The Metaphysical Poets
c. The Function of Criticism
d. Hamlet and His Problems
30. Which of the
following is a collection of essays by T. S. Eliot?
a. Prufrock and Other Observations
b. The Sacred Wood
c. The Waste Land and Other Poems
d. Four Quartets
31. T.S. Eliot served as assistant editor (1917–1919) for which influential literary magazine?
A. The Dial
B. The Criterion
C. The Egoist
D. The Little Review
32. In which year
was T. S. Eliot appointed as a director of the publishing house Faber and
Faber?
a. 1925
b. 1935
c. 1945
d. 1955
33. Which of the
following is not a line from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock"?
a. "Do I dare / Disturb the
universe?"
b. "I am not Prince Hamlet, nor
was meant to be"
c. " I have measured out my life
with coffee spoons”
d. "In my beginning is my
end"
34. The Family
Reunion (1939) adapts which classical myth to a modern setting?
A. Oedipus Rex
B. Orestes’ vengeance
C. Medea’s infanticide
D. Antigone’s
defiance
35. In which essay does T.S. Eliot argue that “the value of a work of art must be assessed in relation to the artist’s previous works”?
A. The Function of Criticism (1923)
B. Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
C. Hamlet and His Problems (1919)
D. The Metaphysical Poets (1921)
36. In which essay does T.S. Eliot argue that a work of art must always be new, stating it would otherwise "therefore not be a work of art"?
A. The Function of Criticism (1923)
B. Hamlet and His Problems (1919)
C. Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
D. The Function
of Criticism (1923)
37. In which essay does T.S. Eliot argue that art must be understood not in isolation, but within the context of preceding artistic traditions?
A. The Metaphysical Poets (1921)
B. Hamlet and His Problems (1919)
C. Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
D. The Function
of Criticism (1923)
38. Which of the
following was a major influence on T. S. Eliot's writing?
a. Romanticism
b. Classicism
c. Realism
d. Naturalism
39. In T.S. Eliot’s Whispers of Immortality, the dramatist “Was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and the poet who “knew the anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton” are, respectively:
A. Shakespeare and Donne
B. Webster and Donne
C. Marlowe and Marvell
D. Jonson and Herbert
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40. Which of the
following is the opening line of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"?
a. "The winter evening settles
down / With smell of steaks in passageways"
b. "April is the cruellest
month"
c. "I have measured out my life
with coffee spoons"
d. "The sun beats down and I lie
down to doze"
41. Which of the
following works by T. S. Eliot is a collection of essays on literary criticism?
a. "The Waste Land"
b. "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock"
c. "Four Quartets"
d. "The Sacred Wood"
42. Which of the
following is a line from T. S. Eliot's "The Four Quartets"?
a. "I am not Prince Hamlet, nor
was meant to be"
b. "In my beginning is my
end"
c. "The winter evening settles
down / With smell of steaks in passageways"
d. "We are the hollow men / We
are the stuffed men"
43. What was the
title of T. S. Eliot's most famous critical essay, published in 1919?
a. "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock"
b. "The Waste Land"
c. "Tradition and the Individual
Talent"
d. "The Hollow Men"
44. Which of the
following works by T. S. Eliot is a verse drama?
a. "The Waste Land"
b. "Four Quartets"
c. "Ash Wednesday"
d. "Murder in the Cathedral"
45. Which of the
following works by T. S. Eliot is considered a response to the devastation of
World War I?
a. "The Waste Land"
b. "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock"
c. "Four Quartets"
d. "Murder in the Cathedral"
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65. Which poem by
Eliot ends with the famous lines: “This is the way the world ends / Not with a
bang but a whimper”?
A. Ash-Wednesday
B. The Hollow Men
C. Gerontion
D. Marina
66. Which
children’s book of poems did Eliot write that inspired the musical Cats?
A. Cat Songs
B. Whiskers and Whimsy
C. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
D. The Cat Chronicles
67. Which of the following statements about T.S. Eliot is NOT true?
A. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
B. He was born and raised in London, England.
C. His poem The Waste Land was heavily edited by Ezra Pound.
D. He converted to Anglicanism in 1927.
68. T. S. Eliot died
at ?
A. St. Louis
B. New York
C. London
D. Chicago
69. Which quartet opens with the famous rose-garden meditation?
A. The Dry Salvages
B. Burnt Norton
C. Little Gidding
D. East Coker
70. T. S. Eliot died
in the year?
a. 1965
b. 1955
c. 1975
d. 1985
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Answers: T S Eliot |
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1. B |
2. C |
3. A |
4. C |
5. A |
6. B |
7. B |
8. D |
9. B |
10. C |
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11. C |
12. B |
13. B |
14. C |
15. D |
16. B |
17. B |
18. C |
19. A |
20. D |
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21. B |
22. A |
23. B |
24. A |
25. C |
26. C |
27. A |
28. D |
29. D |
30. B |
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31. C |
32. A |
33. D |
34. B |
35. B |
36. C |
37. C |
38. B |
39. B |
40. B |
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41. B |
42. B |
43. C |
44. D |
45. A |
46. C |
47. D |
48. B |
49. A |
50. D |
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51. A |
52. D |
53. C |
54. B |
55. A |
56. C |
57. C |
58. B |
59. B |
60. C |
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61. B |
62. C |
63. B |
64. D |
65. B |
66. C |
67. B |
68. C |
69. B |
70. A |
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